he joins us right now live from sacramento to tell us about it. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we are talking about the valley elderberry long horned beetle and essentially that bug is keeping you from building stuff, right? >> well, it really has for a long time because the beetle was designated as threatened in the 1970's so we have had no use of that land although we've had to take care of it, pay taxes on it, keep it clean, since that time. the challenge is that six -- four to six years ago, it was official wildlife service, federal government, put it on the list to be removed from the threatened list but they haven't acted on it. >> and that's the part that is so infuriating, bob, is the fact that they did take it off -- they reviewed it, said take it off the list and the federal government, you know, things work really fast there, they still haven't gotten off their butts and done anything about it, right? >> well, it is -- it is an enormous frustration because the costs for us continue to, unfortunately, we're close to the -- fort